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Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.